Perfect Characters #1: Samwise Gamgee

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There are certain characters that, for some reason, stick with us. We always carry them in our hearts, and that's one of the wonders of reading that I like best (or of being a movie junkie like me). These type of characters make us feel understood, they always keep you company, even when you're feeling your worst. They're like a constant comfort that will never fade.

Samwise Gamgee has always been one of those characters for me. He's loyal, brave, humble and simply perfect. Overtime I watch some of the Lord of the Rings movies I feel something warm in my chest that makes me completely happy.

The hairs of my arms stood on end the first time I listened to Sam's speech in The Two Towers, and that's a sensation that will never go away. In rough moments, listening to it, or just watching the movie time and time again, makes me feel fetter, because it reminds me that there's always something to hold on to.

I don't know, Lord of the Rings makes me really emotional.

"Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam.

Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.”